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Police in Utah have arrested and charged six suspects in connection with the abduction and murder of a 25-year-old woman whose body has not been recovered nearly two months after her disappearance.
Conzuelo ‘Nicole’ Solorio-Romero, 25, was ‘forcibly taken’ from her Kearns home on February 6 and brought by car to an apartment in West Valley City, where police say she was shot in the back of the head.
Investigators say Solorio-Romero’s attackers believed she had given information to the police on one of their close associates, resulting in his arrest.
Conzuelo ‘Nicole’ Solorio-Romero, 25, was taken from her Kearns, Utah, home on February 6 and shot in the back of the head
Orlando Tobar, 29 (left), and Jorge Medina-Reyes, 21 (right), have been charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and obstruction of justice
A screenshot from surveillance video shows Solorio-Romero being forced into a car in Kearns
On Friday, the Kearns Unified Police Department announced the arrest of a sixth suspect in the case, identified as 26-year-old Cristian Noe Morales-Gonzalez, who was charged with obstruction of justice.
According to officials, Morales-Gonzalez, who goes by the street nickname ‘the mechanic,’ was called in to dispose of Solorio-Romero’s body after her killing, reported Deseret News.
Orlando Tobar, 29, from Guatemala, and Jorge Medina-Reyes, 21, from Venezuela, were arrested last month and charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and obstruction of justice.
According to a probable cause affidavit, it was Tobar who shot and killed Solorio-Romero after telling her she ‘knew too much, and that she was not going to leave the apartment.’
A witness later allegedly overheard Tobar tell someone that the victim did not die from the initial shot and he had to shoot her a second time.
Earlier this week, police arrested Carolina Marquez, 38 (left), and her son, 22-year-old, Fernando Marquez (right) on the same counts of Tobar and Medina-Reyes
Ivan Acosta, 27, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and obstruction of justice
Police say Solorio-Romero worked at Carolina’s eatery, Tacos Mi Caramelo, and that Carolina suspected her of snitching on her other son, leading to his arrest
Earlier this week, police arrested Carolina Marquez, 38, and her son, 22-year-old, Fernando Marquez, along with Ivan Acosta, 27. The trio were booked into jail on the some of the same charges as the first two suspects.
A confidential informant told police that Carolina, who owns the Tacos Mi Caramelo eatery where Solorio-Romerio worked, had been telling people that her other adult son was ‘set up by someone and is now in jail,’ the affidavit stated.
Following the shooting, Medina-Reyes allegedly called Morales-Gonzalez and asked him to come over and dispose of Solorio-Romero’s body.
Solorio-Romero (left and right) was allegedly told ‘she knew too much’ before police say Tobar shot her in the back of the head. Her body has not been found
Cristian Noe Morales-Gonzalez, 26, nicknamed ‘the mechanic,’ is suspected of disposing of Solorio-Romero’s body
Acosta told police that he saw the man dubbed ‘the mechanic’ leave in a white truck ‘to go get rid of Nicole’s body.’
During an interview with police, Carolina Marquez said everyone then headed to her restaurant in West Valley City before returning to the crime scene to clean up the blood, reported Fox 13 Now.
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